Fair Shake

This is a comprehensive overview of why, despite supposed great strides in gender equality, women are still falling behind in the workplace. Fair Shake (Simon & Schuster) offers a new framework to understanding gender inequality in the workplace, through the eyes of three legal scholars. Levit, Cahn, and Carbone suggest that we have a winner-take-all economy which fosters aggressively competitive feedback loops that harm women. Ultimately, women find themselves in a triple bind: if they don’t compete with men, they are sidelined; if they do compete with men, they are punished harshly for their mistakes; and if women believe that they cannot compete on the same terms, they completely remove themselves from the conversation. The authors argue for systematic change, offering hope and solutions for a better, more just economy.